U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Friday visited the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory to assess challenges associated with cleanup of the site.
The Energy Department said in a Friday press release that Perry was keeping a promise he made in June to visit the facility.
The Energy Department has a few remaining buildings to take down and is responsible for soil remediation within 470 acres of the 2,850-acre Santa Susana property, located 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Boeing and NASA are the other parties responsible for cleanup of the property.
“I am pleased Secretary Perry went through with the commitment he made to me this summer,” U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) said in a statement to the Los Angeles Daily News . “The community was promised that the work needed to clean up the Santa Susana Field lab would be completed by now. And, yet any meaningful effort has not even been started.”